Re:Closed Minded Certainty
Crosslink:
similarminds.com :: View topic - INTJs and Closed Minded Certainty
My motivation for this post:
http://www.typologycentral.com/foru...trices/1369-inxj-closed-minded-certitude.html
CC = closed-minded certitude
Let's take my man Henry Kissinger's kind of political philosophy...
Political realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And take an NLP-inspired set of patterns...
Sleight of mouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Concretize/Sequence/Contextualize it through a process of negotiation, along with an interesting tie in to MBTI...
The Process of Negotiation
The Temperament Sorter (INTJs being the tougher nut to crack according to the poll)
Negotiation Basics
Negotiating Pattern Language
What kinds of possibilities/opportunities can we look forward to in interacting with CC inflicted Ni-Dominants (especially INTJs)?
Is it possible to plant the seed of
Socionics : Extraverted Intuition as Leading Function (Extraverted Intuition) and allow for growth in CC-inflicted Ni-Dominants (especially INTJs)?
In our kind of world if you're not adapting, you're dying off with the dinosaurs. You become a boring statue of a person. So the question becomes "What sorts of tools/sensors do I need to see/probe pattern-space and interact constructively with the world around me?"
An important one is Gregory Bateson's "Difference that makes a difference" definition of information. It's important to know when your concepts/behaviors stop corresponding to the reality around you. Where are your sources of mismatches/uncertainty/conflict/novelty/reasons for change? In the case of CC-inflicted Ni-Dominants (especially INTJs) their missed opportunities for novelty seem to come from trying to come to conclusions too early with friends who are trying to offer the novelty.
Now to bring in the hyperlinks above.
- Ben Kovitz of greenlightwiki has given us the concept of "Extraversion as negotiation".
- CC-inflicted Ni-Dominants (especially INTJs) are knowingly making power plays (political realism)
- The main resource they're fighting over are malleable beliefs (Dilt's patterns, Bateson's definition of information, and ever-increasing novelty)
- We can draw resiliency/information knowing the many ways of looking at the issue.
So I guess I'm trying to see how CC-inflicted Ni-Dominants (especially INTJs) can serve as catalysts to greater flexibility.
Thoughts??
1. Print out some business cards with the following taken from "Science, Strategy, and War" by Frans P.B. Osinga, hand them out and ask for feedback:
Characteristics of Creative People...
Thinking Abilities
- Use metaphors in thinking
- Flexible decision maker
- Uses broad categories
- Uses mental images
- Can cope with novelty
- Can break mental sets
- Finds order in chaos
Personality Characteristics
- Willing to take intellectual risk
- Curiousity and inquisitiveness
- Openness to new experiences
- Tolerates ambiguity
- Broad range of interests
- Playful with ideas
- Intuitive
Thinking Styles
- Challenges assumptions
- Looks for novelty and gaps in knowledge
- Draws new ideas out of existing knowledge
2. Teach them how to play like a kid again:
Play (activity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Institute for Play The Patterns of Play
Play therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Many mature adults find that "child's play" is so difficult and taboo, that most experienced group workers need specially tailored "play" strategies to reach them. Competent adult-group workers will use these play strategies to enable more unguarded spontaneity to develop in the non-childish student."
3. Along with #2 is teaching them how to improvise:
Improv Skills
Tips And Techniques
Sorry for the mind-dump. :hi: to everyone that hasn't seen me on similarminds.com